Pentamerisms – Guitar Duo

Pentamerisms (1993) – Duration: 10’00”.  There are three movements in the work – Dreamscape, Dancescape and Treescape.  Each of the movements features some aspect of the number five – quintuple meters, quintuplets, or rhythmic figures in groups of five.   “Dreamscape” opens with harmonics and harmonic chords from the first guitar against a single, falling melodic line from the second.  When the parts are exchanged, the melodic line is inverted.  A middle section is more traditional with the lower part supplying the harmonic foundation for a lyric melody.  It is interrupted several times by block chords moving in opposite directions before a brief return to the opening.  “Dancescape” uses changing, irregular meters and simple melodic patterns to create a cheerful, Latin dance.  Each section ends with block chords in compound duple and long silence.  “Treescape” opens with a pounding accompaniment that begins with a quintuplet against a melody in octaves performed in triplets.  This evolves into quintuplet followed by descending eighth notes and later descending eighths against a rhythmic figure in a group of five.

Moderately Difficult

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